Anne M. Lockner

Ms. Lockner is a partner in the firm's business litigation department who works with business leaders facing legal disputes that cause financial exposure and other risks to their business. Using her extensive litigation and trial experience, Ms. Lockner offers strategic legal guidance on how to use litigation—either defensively or affirmatively—to meet their business objectives. As a trial attorney, she has the skills and expertise to wield the threat of trial as a sword, but understands and appreciates her clients’ need to use it only as weapon of last resort. Ultimately, Ms. Lockner’s goal is to further her clients’ objectives which are often to mitigate the risk to the business, maximize its financial recovery, and where feasible, position the company for a win-win business resolution.

Ms. Lockner has experience in numerous areas of complex litigation including healthcare-fraud litigation, class-action defense, privacy and data breach matters, internal and government investigations, minority-shareholder disputes and other fiduciary claims, non-competition and non-solicitation disputes, trade secrets, bankruptcy, securities, tax, Telephone Consumer Protection Act, white-collar criminal defense, consumer fraud, real estate, securities, financial fraud, breach of contract, trade secret, Copyright, Minnesota Termination of Sales Representatives Act, antitrust, RICO, corporate structure, intellectual property, and insurance matters.